Who’s eating Australia’s fish?

   

Visual Stories Team | The Age
1 June 2023

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Storyboard

• map with permit zones
  
• map with areas within the permit zones that do not allow commercial fishing

 

• all fishing (actual fishing) around Australia of all countries in the past 10 years
  
• all fishing (actual fishing) around Australia of all countries in the last full year we have data of (Jan- Dec)
  
• single out the top 5 countries fishing around AUS in that year (country by country)

 

• blame map showing all individual ships in the last year fishing (actual fishing) within our permit zones

 

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Global EEZ and fishing regions

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Module 1

All EEZ

 

Aus EEZ

 

Aus global fishing

 

Top nation global fishing e.g. China

 

Fleet size 2020

 

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Module 2

Case study (animated full globe)

• follow vessel from one of top fishing nations above

 

10 years of fishing around Aus

• highlight how above case study is one of 1000s of vessels from many competing countries
  
• zoom into AUS EEZ after following case study

 

 

Top 3 nations fishing around Aus

 

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Module 3

All nations within Aus EEZ

• This may be shifted above after the case study

 

 

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Credits

DEVELOPER/3D VISUALISATION Richard Lama, Nathanael Scott, Daniel Carter PHOTOS Francis Kokoroko DATA Matt Malishev DESIGN Mark Stehle, Luis Araujo, Kathleen Adele VIDEO Francis Kokoroko PRODUCTION Matthew Absalom-Wong EDITORS Nick Ralston, Lia Timson

 

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Another data story by the Visual Stories Team